Tools you must learn


Projects you must complete

Examples of your work







Shapes
I used shapes in the following project(s):
Stars and Rocks, Pattern of polygons, and
above link "Shapes"


Project 1 Instructions
Dawn's Project 1


Fill and Stroke
I used tools to fill in color and add strokes to the
following project(s): Pattern of polygons,

Symphony, Stars, and Rocks

Project 2 Instructions
Dawn's Project 2


Layers
I used layers in all of my examples on Project 4

Project 3 Instructions
Dawn's Project 3


Text example 1
I used text in the following project(s): Symphony,
Read a Book, Picture of Daughter

Project 4 Instructions
Dawn's Project 4


Text to Outlines
I used text to outline when creating my star ... I
have attached a copy of the star from my project
to the title of this tool.


Project 5 Instructions
Dawn's Project 5


Text on a Path
An example of text on a path can be found via the
link of the tool title.


Project 6 Instructions
Dawn's Project 6


Paths
Paths are the primary factor in Illustrator, so
it can be found in most of my projects, two key
examples are the new letter in project 2 and
throughout project 3.I used paths in the
following project(s):


Final project Instructions



Simple drawing with a pen tool
I utilized the pen tool in the following project(s):
The
"sax" on the upper right hand corner of
Symphony






Group objects
I grouped objects in the following project(s):
Fairies and Rotated Avatar






Color, applying, learning RGB and Web codes
The use of this tool can be seen in the following
project(s): All projects






Aligning
I used alignment in the following project:
Snowman and Mountain, Fairies, Avatar (3rd)





Using the ruler, guidelines, and grid
I used the ruler, guidelines, and grid tools in the
following project:

Snowman and Mountain, Fairies, and Avatar (3rd)





Scaling
I used the scaling tool in the following project:
rocks/tension, Avatars and snowman, the
arrowin project 4.






Rotating
I used the rotation tool in the following project:
3rd Avatar (toward bottom of page)





Reflecting
I used the reflection tool in the following project:
Fairies





Using the free Transform tool
I used the free transform tool in the following
project(s): None of them. I did play around with
the tool, but never found it to be effective in
what I specificially trying to accomplish.
There are a lot of things I could do with this ...
especially when creating maps!






Exporting files (.jpg, .gif, .png)
I exported all of my files as .jpg files by "saving
for web and devices"






Tool of your choice 1: Warp Tool
I used the warp tool in the following project:
Symphonyand Tension





Tool of your choice 2: Eraser
I used the eraser tool in the following
project(s):

Fairies and Symphony





Tool of your choice 3: Effect Tool
I used the effect tool (specifically the use of
stylizer) in the
project 5.